The Defectors (#198)

Big Finish Main Range

This
story is of Jo Grant who awakens to discover that all of the UNIT soldiers were
evacuated from her current location, where she'd landed with the 3rd Doctor.
But who should appear from the TARDIS but the 7th Doctor! She is naturally
suspicious throughout the story but eventually comes to accept that this is
indeed, the Doctor with a future face. They are taken to Delphin Isle
where strange things begin to happen, not that it hadn’t started already. This
is an island that has been secreted away since 1951, when a spacecraft landed
there and it wasn’t pretty. And this story takes place in the 90’s sometime. So
it’s been a long, long time and of course they arrive when things are coming to
a head. This is a story about consequences, thus we find the 7th
Doctor involved.

I
really enjoyed the 7th Doctor and Jo Grant being thrown together in
an adventure! She was justifiably suspicious and so was the Doctor – of the
situation. Why was he there? To deal with the consequences of the 3rd
Doctor’s actions? Does he change things? We don’t know but we definitely know
this is the first story of a trilogy. I can’t wait for the next two! I didn’t
think the story was too strong and this would’ve been a 3 jelloid story if not
for the Jo – 7th Dr. pairing. That was just so fun to listen to!